Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-02-25

Pacific officials concerning rates O.
transportation. They will 60 to the
Rig Bend country.
| The report of James H. Watson
Territorial Inspector of Mines, show,
that the grand total of tons of Goa
mined in the Territory for last veal
was 1886, ,699.56. The average number
of men engaged in mining during the
year was 92O, and the average output
per man engaged, 1925 tons. The re
port shows only one life lost for every
IS 900 tons of coal mined.
The decision of Judges Turner ant
Langford has reached Washington and
a dispatch says it is not unlikely thai
Congress will be called upon to vail
date number of laws passed by the
last Legislative Assembly of the Terri.
tory. 1t is said that there are thirty.
six laws against which the same con-
stitutional objection can be raised,
as was raised against the woman suf-
frage measure.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th
instant is IS follows: One of the ques-
tions considered at sto-day's Cabinet
meeting was in regard to the reim-
bursement OF the Chinese residents of
Washington Territory for losses sus-
tained during the riots in that Terri
tory last Spring. 1t was decided to
refer the claims, amounting to 81, ,167,
to Congress, with recommendation for
their payment.
At the stockholders meeting of the
Northwestern Insurance company, to
be held in Puyallup, there will be an
effort made to complete the subscrip-
ton of the whole of the capital stock
of 100000. The projectors are de-
termined that the company shall be on
solid basis before any business is
done. One farmer who is perfectly
able to do SO indicates willingness to
take $4,000 of the stock.
A movement has been started to
change the next annual meeting of the
grand lodge of Masons from Vancouver
tc Port Townsend. The reason for
this is that it occurs about the time
fixed for the annual reunion of pio-
neers to take place there in June-and
so many of the Masonic brethren are
also members of the pioneer associa-
ton, and want to attend both, that it
would be an accommodation all around
tc have them come together.-Port
Tomnsend Argus.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says
"Capt. Carter of the Iuanhoe reports
being within a mile of the long-looked-
for bark Templar about eight days ago
and says she is all safe and may be
looked for any day. Capt. Carter also
said he experienced very heavy wealth
er coming up the coast, gales from the
northwest. The Iranhoe was twenty
four days in reaching Port Townsend" :"
The Templar arrived in safety the
next day at Port Townsend, having
been thirty days out from San Fran
cisco. The Nellie May, also reported
lost, arrived safely in company with
the Templar.
Washington Farmer: F. H. Wilkin,
during his trip to Puget Sound, was
assured that all the stock necessary
will be taken to provide the 100000
required to build the Teanaway canal,
which will irrigate $1,000 acres of land
now lying waste in East Kittitas val
ley. This canal will be thirty-three
miles long, twelve feet wide ON the
bottom, twenty feet on top and four
feet deep. 1t will cross the Swauk,
eight miles above the railway bridge,
by flume $40 feet long and 200 feet
high. The company will be re-incor-
porated, and the canal will be finished
in two years.
The Intelligencer says that consider
able surprise is expressed over the
fact that the revenue cutter Olirer
Wolcon WAS not sent down the coast to
Flattery rocks when it was reported
that an American vessel was stranded
there. The news of the stranded yes.
sci being on the rocks was brought uE
by the steamship Merico several weeks
ago, and it does seem that some effort
should have been made to ascertain
the name of the vessel and whether OF
not any assistance could be extended
to vessel or crew. On the Eastern
coast revenue cutters are ever on the
dlcTt 10 stlu anu ASSIST American VcSSeN
in distress.
A correspondent sends the following
particulars of the accident ut thu
Northern Pacific tunnel, briefly re
ported by wire: 1t seems the gang o
men were at work .timbering. Elever
men were engaged in hauling one O
the heavy posts sixteen feet long
when a large rock, about seven fee
wide and ten feet long, fell out of tn
roof OF the tunnel on this timber
breaking it and killing one maj
named William Humphrey, supposed
to be from near Fargo, Dakota, ser
iously wounding two, Charles Smitl
and NJ. Gallagher, and disabling tw,
others, ]. Jacobson and G. Smith
All of the eleven were more or less in
jured. Bennett, the contractor, wa